Relativistic raytracing

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hackyhacky•about 3 hours ago

This is very interesting, but way above my pay grade. Can someone explain how the resulting image reflects light traveling backwards in time?

addaon•about 2 hours ago

Can you clarify your question? Light does not travel in time -- that's sort of the main characteristic of things traveling at the speed of light.

sebzim4500•about 2 hours ago

It does if you are ray tracing. They are trying to find the source of a theoretical photon that hits the screen at the present time, the source will therefore have been in the past so they need to run time backwards as the photon moves away from the camera.

hackyhacky•about 1 hour ago

From TFA:

> But wouldn't we want to see the black hole? One could send a ray through every pixel of a screen, and let them go around the black hole and hit its surroundings. And if the rays are sent back in time, it's as if one received the light emitted by the surrounding objects in the past!

leidenfrost•about 2 hours ago

Someone should implement this as a mod for RTX No Man Sky

Relativistic raytracing

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